On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 12:20:02PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote:
> Now, Am I right in assumming that GNUS is just a news client or is it a mail client
>also ??
You can read mail in gnus - read about the nnmbox backend in the docs.
> if so how do I use it as a mail client ??
As usual, you need to put a bunch of stuff in your .emacs. Refer to the
gnus manual.
> And in gnus, when I start , it connects to my news server
> but it does not show me al the the groups in that server but shows someother groups
>!!
> How do I make it show all the groups !!
Read about gnus-read-active-file
> Back to vm ;-)
> In mutt, there is a facility where in I can add an alias with just pressing 'a' and
>it is interactive.
> Is there such a facility in either vm or gnus !!
There is a package called "bbdb", which lets you do that. It integrates
well with vm and gnus.
BTW, (setq auto-fill-mode t). It makes your mails very readable.
-Arun
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